19th Century - Significant People

Significant People

• Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, King of Poland
• Clara Barton, nurse, pioneer of the American Red Cross
• Sitting Bull, a leader of the Lakota
• John Burroughs, Naturalist, conservationist, writer
• Benito Juárez, Mexican President
• Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier, folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician
• Jefferson Davis, Confederate States President
• William Gilbert Grace, English cricketer
• Baron Haussmann, civic planner
• Franz Joseph I of Austria, Emperor of Austria and brother of Mexican Emperor
• Chief Joseph, a leader of the Nez Percé
• Ned Kelly, Australian folk hero, and outlaw
• Elizabeth Kenny, Australian Nurse and found an Innovative Treatment of Polio
• Sándor Körösi Csoma, explorer of the Tibetan culture
• Abraham Lincoln, United States President
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow, writer and explorer
• John Muir, Naturalist, writer, preservationist
• Florence Nightingale, nursing pioneer
• Napoleon I, First Consul and Emperor of the French
• Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish political leader
• Commodore Perry, U.S. Naval commander, opened the door to Japan
• José Rizal, Filipino polymath, physician, nationalist, novelist, poet, liberator
• Sacagawea, Important aide to Lewis&Clark
• Ignaz Semmelweis, proponent of hygienic practices
• Dr. John Snow, the founder of epidemiology
• F R Spofforth, Australian cricketer
• Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
• William Wilberforce, Abolitionist, Philanthropist
• Hong Xiuquan inspired China's Taiping Rebellion, perhaps the bloodiest civil war in human history
• Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto, promoted change in the labor system of Europe
• Nikola Karev commander and leader of the Ilinden Uprising in Ottoman-Macedonia.